Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language that are used to distinguish meaning. In English there are approximately 44 phonemes represented by 26 letters and letter combinations. Phonemes can vary phonetically as allophones without changing the meaning, such as the "p" sound in "pin" and "spin" both being allophones of the phoneme "p". To identify the phonemes in a word, it must be segmented, or broken down, into its individual sounds.

1. What are phonemes?
In linguistics, a phoneme is the smallest sound unit
in a language that is capable of conveying a
distinct meaning, such as the s of sing and
the r of ring.

2.  The english language has about 44 sounds of
speech. Yhis depends on different accents
 These 44 sounds are represented n the English
wriring system by 26 letters of the alphabet and
combinations of those letters

3.  The phonemes can be describe as the smallest
constractive linguistic unit wich may bring
about change of meaning
 Pet, Bet
 Bid, Did, Kid,

4.  To hear the phonemes in a word one must
breack the word up into its sounds. This is
called « segmenting»
 Example
 F/u/n

5.  Word, world,
 Lever, never

6.  A phoneme may have variations , called
allophones that differ phonetically without
affecting meaning

7.  An allophone is a phonetic variation of a
phoneme in particular language
 Examples
 P and Ph are allophones of the pgoneme P
 T and TH are allophones of the phoneme T

8.  An allophone is one of the two or more
variants of the same phoneme, the aspirated
/p/ of Pin and the unaspirated /P/ of Spin
this are allophones of the phoneme
 example
 Top
 Stop

9.  The definition of an allophone is an alternative
sound for a letter or group of letters in a word.

10.  Keep Deep
 Kid. Skit
 Pad, pat
 Bad, Bat
 Pig, big